On Sunday, my fiancée and I woke up at the crack of dawn to volunteer for the Clinton Foundation’s Day of Action in Denver. We weren’t sure what to expect, but hoped to get the chance to do some real work that would have a genuine impact. Our hopes were realized many times times over when we got to the MiCasa Resource Center, an organization that has been dedicated to advancing the economic success of Latino families in the Denver area since 1976.

We often hear that America's young people care about nothing more than selfies and Instagram filters -- that for so many young Americans, the call to service is nothing more than an echo from the past, from a time when being a citizen meant looking beyond one's self.

While the Clinton Foundation gathered more than 600 CGI U students in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Day of Action on Sunday, other Clinton Foundation staff and former Clinton Foundation interns also organized their own Days of Action to give back to their own communities in Ondo West, Nigeria and New …